The Journal of Marriage and Family (JMF), published
by the National Council on Family Relations, is the leading research journal
in the family field and has been so for over sixty years. JMF features
original research and theory, research interpretation and reviews, and critical
discussion concerning all aspects of marriage, other forms of close relationships,
and families. The Journal also publishes book reviews.
Contributors to JMF come from a diversity of fields including
anthropology, demography, economics, history, psychology, and sociology, as
well as interdisciplinary fields such as human development and family sciences. JMF publishes
original theory and research using the variety of methods reflective of the
full range of social sciences, including quantitative, qualitative, and multimethod
designs. Integrative reviews as well as reports on methodological and statistical
advances are also welcome.JMF is issued quarterly, in February, May, August, and November
of each year. Each issue averages 284 pages in length. World wide, its circulation
is more than 6,200 copies.

The "moving wall" represents the time period between the last issue
available in JSTOR and the most recently published issue of a journal.
Moving walls are generally represented in years. In rare instances, a
publisher has elected to have a "zero" moving wall, so their current
issues are available in JSTOR shortly after publication.
Note: In calculating the moving wall, the current year is not counted.
For example, if the current year is 2008 and a journal has a 5 year
moving wall, articles from the year 2002 are available.

Terms Related to the Moving Wall

Fixed walls: Journals with no new volumes being added to the archive.

Absorbed: Journals that are combined with another title.

Complete: Journals that are no longer published or that have been
combined with another title.

Abstract

Educators are called upon to draw the necessary educational implications from the fact that in this transitional period of sex morality, sharply conflicting value systems exist among which no consensus is possible. Six contending value systems are analyzed along a repressive-permissive continuum; these systems must be evaluated and an "open forum" created if teachers are to have the dialogue with youth essential for a meaningful educational process. Since most values in our official sex codes have become competing alternatives, the basis values of sex education must be sought in the core values of a democratic society.